Air Cooled Heat Exchangers are a type of heat exchanger design commonly used in mobile applications where a liquid coolant supply isn’t available such as automotive and construction vehicles. As the name suggests, air cooled heat exchangers provide a cooling solution for fluids using air which is driven through a fin core by an electrical, hydraulic or mechanically driven fan. Air Cooled Heat Exchangers can be supplied to cool a single fluid, such as engine water, or a combination of fluids as part of a cooling pack .

Thus if we deal with the needs of the automotive industry, the design of Air Cooled Heat Exchangers and Oil Coolers must ensure the most efficient and cost effective heat exchanger solution is always provided. From raw data, Unilab Radiator Suite can design and produce a range of custom-built radiators heat exchangers for a multitude of applications and operational conditions.

The main technologies we tackled in the automotive market in our Unilab Radiator Suite software are:

PLATE AND FIN/PLATE AND BAR

SINGLE PORT TUBE AND FIN

MULTI PORT TUBES AND FIN

Plate And Fin module allows the calculation of a radiator heat exchanger by using the plate and bar technology, and has the possibility to use Gas (pure/mixture), Liquid (pure/mixture) such as Air, Water, Oil, Glycols, etc and the relative fin geometry and multiport bar/plate on core sides 1 and 2.

You can see how you design this type of alluminium heat echanger:

Tube And Fin module allows the calculation of a radiator heat exchanger by using the tube and fin technology, and has the possibility to use Gas (pure/mixture) such as Air and the relative fin geometry and core side 1, and Liquid (pure/ mixture) with single port tubes on core side2.

You can see how you design this type of alluminium heat echanger:

CCA module allows the calculation of a radiator heat exchanger by using the mutiport tubes and fin technology, and has the possibility to use Gas (pure/mixture) mixture such as Air and the relative fin geometry and core side 1, and Gas (pure/mixture), Liquid (pure/mixture) with single port and multiport tubes on core side 2.

You can see how you design this type of alluminium heat echanger:

All designs from Radiator Suite are application specific, ensuring efficient and cost effective design in regards to heat transfer and the fin and geometric data relative to the heat exchanger and you can fine tune the same in regards to your laboratory data.

Hence, the above mentioned modules and videos will give you an idea of How To use Unilab Radiator Suite to design your Radiator Heat Exchanger.

Unilab SRL is a Heat Transfer Software Development Company with 30 years' of experience in the HVAC&R market. We provide cutting-edge technologies such as Heat Exchanger Design Software and Selection Software to HVAC&R manufacturers worldwide. On our website, you will find documentation about our Engineering Software Products, Tutorials, Case Studies written in collaboration with our longstanding customers', and Articles about Thermodynamics, Engineering, and HVAC Market Insights.

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Unilab SRL is a Heat Transfer Software Development Company with 30 years' of experience in the HVAC&R market. We provide cutting-edge technologies such as Heat Exchanger Design Software and Selection Software to HVAC&R manufacturers worldwide. On our website, you will find documentation about our Engineering Software Products, Tutorials, Case Studies written in collaboration with our longstanding customers', and Articles about Thermodynamics, Engineering, and HVAC Market Insights.